Leeds today: Save Leeds Crisis Centre, school site meeting, Makkah Mosque video and The Reservoir Lodge

Good morning, Leeds. The importance of data for journalists and their audiences will come under the spotlight at Leeds Trinity University College tomorrow. Guardian news editor and Datablog editor Simon Rogers will be talking about power of data and the role journalists have in making it accessible and digestible for their audiences at the Leeds Community News Hub. The project is aimed at getting local community organisations more involved in the local news agenda and providing them with access to experts in the news media. Book your place to hear Rogers speak by following this link . What's making Leeds today? A blog has been set up to help save Leeds' only instant access crisis counselling service from closure - Save Leeds Crisis Centre . More details are emerging about a public meeting to discuss a community bid for the sports facilities and playing pitches on the former Leeds Girls High School (LGHS) site in South Headingley/Hyde Park, which has recently been the subject of plans for a residential development. Full details of the event, on February 2 at Wrangthorn Church Hall, at Hyde Park and Woodhouse Online . A post on The Reservoir Lodge is the latest part of Exploring Leeds blog's Leeds' Lost Opportunities Revisited project. A programme designed to teach children and young people how to live greener and more eco-friendly lives is to be launched in schools across Leeds . Leeds-based website Independent Fullstop launched last year to chronicle Leeds' independent spirit in an interactive and collaborative map. The scheme has proven so successful that they have launched their second map, this time focussing on Wakefield, and are looking to expand into other cities in the not-too-distant future. There's an interview with rising Leeds band Tigers That Talked over at Cardiff-based Cat on The Wall blog . Jon Eland blogs about WePublish, an unconference for content creators in Leeds. Headingley LitFest has received a welcome boost with local councillors donating £350 to the popular event, reports Leeds Liberal Democrats . One of Leeds' most exciting arts projects is headed to Left Bank in Cardigan Road for a free festival of music, performance, workshops in February, reports North Leeds Life magazine. LeedsBookClub blog is delighted to announce a new, bigger, brighter and better book club! What the papers say The menace of alcohol is costing Leeds millions, reports the YEP . Meanwhile, a property developer has revealed plans for the £40 million redevelopment of a four-acre site in Leeds's Civic Quarter. Do you have news, views or events to share? Feel free add them to the comments below or contact me by email or on Twitter @GdnLeeds .